You Cal loving crew are so weird man. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Pilgrim says Hurley
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I think the possibility of it ending very ugly is there, but I'd be more concerned about a Bobby Knight situation.
Calipari used UK fandom to further his self serving agenda , Hurley might use it as a club
But it could be a wild ride if the guys owns it and wins
He's probably the top of the list even if I don't like his personality one bit. He's an asshole, but if he's gonna be an asshole winning championships, he can be our asshole.
we finally agree on something here for once.
It's possible, but I bet he also thought there was no way Cal goes to Arkansas before it started breaking either. He's just making assumptions. I will assume Hurley is using us for a pay raise until I see otherwise. Oats, Drew, Pearl, are realistic with maybe a few others thrown in. I'm not buying Donavan, Wright, or Stevens. Donavan is the only one of those 3 that I think is even remotely possible.
Definitely not a shoe in that we get someone better than Cal, and I'm not 100% sure the realistic options are.
It's all in Mitch’s hands and that should make us all nervous. Could go either way.
Both of these will be and are MAJOR points for UK.
Dan Hurley is not being talked about for back-to-back title games. He's being talked about as a possible replacement at UK. No other school provides that. With or without Cal, we are the needle (even when we ain't playing or winning). Our coaching search is overshadowing the fist back-to-back title contender since Florida 15+ years ago.
Also, UConn will be left outside when the big conferences leave the NCAA. Will make the monetary hole they are already in that much deeper.
He may not come here, but people who act like we have nothing to offer aren't looking deep enough.
Do you remember 2003 when the UNC job was open and Roy Williams was coaching Kansas in the national title game? Doherty was let go on April 1, the Tuesday before the Final Four, and Ropy Williams was their obvious target, having turned down the job a few years earlier. Talked about it all week. That was a crazy one.
He also had to rebuild a program that was treading water. It took him time to develop non 5 stars and then he built a powerhouse, then lost most of that roster and had another
If he had the players we can get he wouldn’t be struggling early
The conference angle is an interesting one. Kentucky is 100% safe in a football conference, having a football school that's actually halfway decent. Uconn though, lot of questions where they will wind up.
This. Hurley would be the one name that surprises me more than anyone else if it happened. Hurley has UConn rolling and would be a legend there if he’s the one that surpasses the Carolina schools and potentially UK on all time titles…ucla is out of reach but we are in the target zone. He is a made man there right now with next to no pressure. Idk why he’d leave to a pressure cooker where he’d have 5 years to reprove himself.
With that said, I know nothing about UConn’s facilities, NIL, etc…. I’m looking at it from a purely psychology standpoint
Edit: @etownblue25 brought up conference realignment and league money…that would be the answer to “why?”
Hurley is also a Pitino fanboy. He's wired for the challenge. Has talked about wanting to take the Knicks back to the glory days. I think a job like this makes guys like him tick. Like it made Rick tick.
ChicagoCat1990 says Hurley as well. Fingers crossed.
You sound like a battered wife. I could be wrong, but there might be direct flights from Louisville to Little Rock on Southwest. Go check it out
I think Hurley has a lot to offer, but besides the obvious, he has that Northeaster F U attitude I loved in Pitino. He could come in and wouldn't care what people thought. He would do it his way
I do t don’t know redurface means but hopefully you make it sound bad. Don’t be so mad bro just buy an Arkansas hoodie and go with him.
yea, exactly what Barnhart does not want. He had his fill of that with Cal
If I see lifetime contract in my lifetime again that’s just too soon….
I have a strong feeling it's not going to be any of the names that we are mentioning ad nauseum here past two days.
Goodness, this almost caused a seizure...
Seems like most great coaches are arrogant @$$holes. We don't need a nice guy type. We had that with Tubby and it didn't go real well after the first year. Just a few Elite 8's to show for it. We had the right type with Pitino and early Cal before he went all in on the players first nonsense. He actually wanted to catch UCLA back then. He stopped caring and the results showed on the floor.
I’m convinced there is a segment of this fan base that only started watching UK basketball when Calipari came here. They are absolutely clueless about the power and pull UK has
I'm in the camp of this doesn't matter as much as some think.
I think the most likely scenario is he stays at Uconn.
But if he is open to moving, I don't see how winning two titles instead of one title really changes that all too much. If he's looking to move, he's looking for something that Uconn can't offer. Maybe that's to be at a top program like UK. Maybe it's more money. Who knows.
I'm afraid he is too much of a north eastern guy to want to come to Ky. He will listen, as a threat, so he can get himself a good raise there
Football drives college athletic revenues. The Big East doesn't have the TV revenue to disburse to its schools. Boosters can only chop in for so long.
Pitino had roots up in the Northeast. Even Cal was from up near that area. So I don't think that will be the hurdle to getting him. It's does he want to coach at the biggest college basketball school in the country where you have millions of us crazy fans? Can you also handle living in that fishbowl? The conference alignment could play a major role as well. Do you risk being left out by not joining one of the 2 big conferences?
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This has nothing to do with Cal. We will not get any of those as the next coach.
Rick Pitino was and still is a huge asshole, but he also may well be considered the 2nd best coach to ever set foot in our program. I don't want him back, but just saying asshole coaches are usually pretty good coaches, at least in our experience.
